A couple of neat links...

[robotech_master]

To counterbalance the aforementioned Wrong Thing, here are a couple of really good Right Things.

First of all, Palm Digital Media is giving away an e-book a day until Christmas. Unlike their usual purchased ebooks, apparently you can only download them during the time they're out, not save them to your library...but hey, they're free. Today's title is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Reader software is free for Palm, Windows CE, Macintosh, and Windows (and the Windows reader also works on Linux via the magic of WINE). Check it out.

Second, thanks to mgrasso, I've found this rather lengthy and engaging essay that traces George Lucas's sources of inspiration for Star Wars...and then traces their sources of inspiration back as far as they'll go. As one might expect, it includes a detailed section on The Lord of the Rings.

Enjoy!

Comments

New Friend

[gawainesheart.livejournal.com]

I found you on a search for local people, and added you as a friend, I hope you don't mind. I thought your journal was interesting.

Re: New Friend

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad you think so. I don't say much in it except what I'm doing and thinking at the moment, so it's kind of old hat to me, but I do hope that other people might have some interest in the things I have to say. I'll be taking a look at your journal later on, too. (Don't have time right now.)